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" 'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America. "

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" I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all. "

" The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.' "

" Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have. "

" So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle. "

" I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.' "

" In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.' "

" It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers. "

" Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos. "

" When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set. "

" You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness. "

" We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show. "

" I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence. "

" You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently. "

" It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. "

" Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. "

" The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more. "

" When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. "

" I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that. "

" Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing. "

" People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections. "

" I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know? "

" When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round. "

" What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving. "

" I'm not really a mainstream novelist! "

" I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic. "

" What worries me is the professionalism of everything. "

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" 'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new. "

" I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content. "

" I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. "

" I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.' "